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What America actually thinks about gun control and mental illness - Quite a few policies on the survey included restrictions based upon mental illness , many of which were supported by a majority of gun-owners and non-gun owners alike. These stats reveal another fundamental issue surrounding the topic of gun control about media representation and also, in this ...

Mental illness and gun control  - Even though the statistics may be somewhat biased because mental health issues are likely reported more frequently in the United States than ...

Liberals deny link between mental illness and mass shootings Think Progress appears to believe that focusing on a link between mental illness and mass shootings is a National Rifle Association tactic designed to divert attention away from the need for gun control legislation. Closely-related arguments were put ...

Mental Illness or Gun Control: Mass Shootings and Risk Assessment  -  Mental illness is a topic that has been brought up following every mass shooting in recent history. Whether the result of a societal defense mechanism ...

Mental Illness or Gun Control: Mass Shootings and Risk Assessment  -  Mental illness is a topic that has been brought up following every mass shooting in recent history. Whether the result of a societal defense mechanism ...

Mental Health Center Proclaims That Mental Illness Does Not Equate to Violence With the gun control debate heating up in the wake of mass-shootings across the country, the Sylvia Brafman Mental Health Center takes a stand against the stigma of mental illness and violence. “In the wake of such tragedies we often try to make sense ...

Lauterbach: Linking gun violence, mental illness may do more harm As the gun control debate wages across the country, David Lauterbach is worried linking violence to mental illness will only cause more pain. “There are hundreds and hundreds of people who should be seeking treatment, but aren't,” said Lauterbach, ...

Viewpoints: Shooters have mental health issues that need 'first aid' Mass murder should not become the new political discourse for endless partisan debate but recognized as a confluence of public health issues: gun control, mental illness and needed resources. Gun control is simply one facet of the problem. One facet of ...

SC and Myrtle Beach area mental health systems persevere through stigma ... MYRTLE BEACH -- The recent school shooting in Newtown, Conn., as with similar tragedies, has spurred conversations on gun control, school safety and mental illness . And while it has not been confirmed that the shooter, who took his own life, had been ...

Maybe Oregon Shooting and Others Aren't About Mental Illness  - Regardless of whether you believe in gun control, there is a widespread belief that mental illness is behind mass shootings. After all, who but a crazy ...

Gun control is the source of the problem  - Something is wrong with our youth laws when a person who allegedly suffers mental illness and has a record of assault with a deadly weapon is not ...